Fastest way to read xml file and import all data in dataset

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I have a 2 GB xml file.
I can use the .Net's feature dataset.loadxml() method to read this file. But it's very much slow.

My question : is there any other way to read xml file and load it to a dataset. I need to load this in a dataset

Please help!

Posted 28-Feb-11 0:49am

Angsuman Chakraborty

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Solution 3

Please check following link

Reading Xml with XmlReader in C#[^]

Posted 28-Feb-11 0:55am

Sunasara Imdadhusen

Solution 2

As soon as you define your XML namespace used in the XML elements, you can easily import this - no problem.

You need to have your XML look something like this:

XML

<Catalog xmlns:dt="some-xml-namespace-here">
 <Rec>
   <ITEM dt:dt="string"/>
   <QTY dt:dt="string">1</QTY>
   <SUB dt:dt="string">1</SUB>
   <CATALOG dt:dt="string">ABC123</CATALOG>
  </Rec>
  .....
 </Catalog>

After I do this, your two lines of code work like a charm and the data gets imported, no problem (into 5 tables inside the Dataset.

Posted 28-Feb-11 0:54am

sairam.bhat

Updated 28-Feb-11 1:01am

v2

Solution 5

If you have the XML file like

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AppConfigItems>
  <Keys>
    <KeyNames>USID</KeyNames>
    <KeyValues>184</KeyValues>
  </Keys>
  <Keys>
    <KeyNames>AdminEmail</KeyNames>
    <KeyValues>abcd@abcd.com</KeyValues>
  </Keys>
  <Keys>
    <KeyNames>PopServerName</KeyNames>
    <KeyValues>pop.gmail.com</KeyValues>
  </Keys>
  <Keys>
    <KeyNames>PortNumber</KeyNames>
    <KeyValues>995</KeyValues>
  </Keys>
</AppConfigItems>

You can go for

MSIL

XmlDocument myXmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
myXmlDocument.Load(ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["AppConfigXMLFileForJobPostByEmail"].ToString() + "AppConfigSettings.xml");
XmlNodeList list = myXmlDocument.SelectNodes("/AppConfigItems/Keys");
foreach (XmlNode stats in list)
{
     if (stats["KeyNames"].InnerText == "AdminEmail")
     {
          string adminemail = stats["KeyValues"].InnerText;//abcd@abcd.com
     }
     if (stats["KeyNames"].InnerText == "PopServerName")
     {
          string popserver = stats["KeyValues"].InnerText;//pop.gmail.com
     }
     if (stats["KeyNames"].InnerText == "PortNumber")
     {
          string portnumber = stats["KeyValues"].InnerText;//995
     }
}

I used this one. This is fast. Hope this will help you.

Posted 28-Feb-11 2:09am

arindamrudra

Solution 6

If you have a schema file (xsd), then you can drastically enhance performance by calling the BeginLoadData/EndLoadData for each table in your data set:

C#

foreach (DataTable dataTable in dataSet.Tables)
   dataTable.BeginLoadData();

dataSet.ReadXml("file.xml");

foreach (DataTable dataTable in dataSet.Tables)
   dataTable.EndLoadData();

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fx29c3yd(v=vs.110).aspx?cs-save-lang=1&cs-lang=csharp#code-snippet-3[^]

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Tarun.K.S · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-28T01:05:00

Solution 4

For large xml files, loading the whole xml will be slow and inefficient which results in poor performance. Here is an article in CP itself which addressed this issue:

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/156982/How-to-Open-Large-XML-files-without-Loading-the-XM.aspx[^]

Posted 28-Feb-11 1:05am

Tarun.K.S

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Angsuman Chakraborty 6-Mar-11 3:18am

myID = RewardXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("Reward/myID").InnerText;

Hi there Tarun,
Thanks for this good article. It would really help the developers world.

I have an inquire about the .selectsinglenode method.

I have a dataset which writes an xml file using Dataset.Writetoxml() in .Net 4.0;

But the problem is if a particular cell in data table has empty or null value, the writetoxml(); method skips that attribute.

Suppose i have a column in data table , lets call this client_address. some client may not provide their address.
If the client_address is empty, the Write to xml method doesnot write <client_address><client_address>.
This attribute is skipped.

So when i use
myclientAddress = RewardXmlDoc.SelectSingleNode("Reward/Client_Addess").InnerText; it gives me error, since this tag doesn't exists.

my question is how can i determine if this element exists in the xml file.